The battle over Jimmy Kimmel appears to be winding down. Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the two massive television affiliates holding out on bringing Jimmy Kimmel Live ! back on air after Disney unsuspended the ABC late-night show , has decided to stop preempting the program effective immediately . Alongside Nexstar, which has yet to make a similar decision, the company initially moved to pull Kimmel from its 38 ABC stations on Wednesday, September 17, over his comments about the MAGA reaction to Charlie Kirk 's murder and the identity of the killer after FCC chair Brendan Carr pressured affiliates to take action against the show over "news distortion."

Sinclair's reversal isn't entirely unsurprising, considering the company had been in negotiations with Disney i

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